Referendum on Obama = President McCain

[kurtboss]

Please understand this one simple fact.

This race HAS to be a referendum on Bush's policy. Hence the McCain=Bush's third term label.

If you doubt this is true, consider the 04 elections. With as bad as we were doing in 04 is there ANY fucking way Kerry should have lost???? No. So why did Kerry lose?

Kerry lost because he let Rove make the election about Kerry. That's what the swiftboating was all about. Misdirection. That's exactly what Rove is trying to pull this year, misdirection.

If we engage the McCain attacks (which will continue) they will dominate the last 3 months and this will be about Obama, and Obama will lose.

Email all the liberal organizations you know. Unions, MoveOn, NOW, NARAL, VoteVets....any and all of them. Explain to them that they won't get the media off these attacks without attacking McCain themselves. Obama can't do it! He's black. Angry black candidates cannot win, sorry. He needs their support and help.

Give them the message to attack McCain using the shiny objects theory....topics the media can't help but focus on...sex/adultery/drugs/9-11/nukes/terrorism/patriotism/homosexuality. You know all the media's favorite stories, it's what McSame is using against Obama to great affect.

Steal the media spotlight from these clever GOP misdirection plays and hammer home the McCain=Bush III theme. Learn from 04, don't repeat the same mistakes.

[Avalux]

1. I agree completely. Obama's campaign needs to figure out a way to reframe this.

As long as one distraction after another are allowed to take front and center (even if they're idiotic), we will lose. There is so much WRONG with the GOP; the spotlight needs to be on them and Bushco.

Of course the media doesn't help. They're the biggest obstacle.

[scheming daemons]

2. Agree.... Referendum on Bush = President Obama

[Skidmore]

3. So instead of parroting and broadcasting RW arguments regarding Obama,

let's get busy and change the subject. Big time! We have need of some surrogates and others with access to microphone to start stating matter-of-factly that this is a referendum on * and McCain as the annointed heir to the * kingdom. Period. It needs to be said in every LTTE, conversation with neighbors and fellow workers or family members, and in the print media. Let's get busy.

[PresidentObama]

4. Well Obama controls the debate and news cycles like Bush did in 2004.

So that kind of picks holes in your argument in comparing it to 2004. Kerry was a great candidate, and should have beat Bush easily. The problem was his campaign lacked the ability to control the debate and the new cycles from day to day, and thus no matter what Kerry said or did his campaign ran around like morons unable to turn the race in their favor. Kerry's biggest mistake was his campaign, and it's piss poor strategy. McCain is making the SAME mistakes, and letting Obama wipe the floor with him.

And when people view McCain as a typical Bush Republican who will continue the Bush policies, he has no chance in hell.

Let me put this way. McCain can attack and attack Obama, and Obama can go out and look Presidential and gain all of the media spotlight. And at the end of the day, both positive and negative--the press is focused on Obama. It seems risky, but that's a good thing. Obama has to dominate this race, and so far he has.

[kurtboss]

5. I See Your Point

But I still see Obama's weakness being that he really can't change the subject easily when these silly distractions are out there. And Obama has many more strengths, I don't mean to imply he's weak...it's just a part of what makes his campaign appealing is also a detriment.

And I just don't think we can risk having lib organizations not trying to combat these smears. And, sad fact is that only other shiny objects get the media attention. The good part is that Obama can and will denounce them. They sort of have to be sacrificial lambs. And then keep pounding McCain=Bush III.